It is being reported at View from the Wing and One Mile at a Time that Marriott Bonvoy has increased award redemption rates at many popular high-end properties. Marriott abandoned its award chart a few years ago, so it has become trickier to identify devaluations, but given the size of the increases at some popular properties, it is easy to see that at the very least, maximum redemption rates have been increased in many places.
View from the Wing points to the JW Marriott Masai Mara. Apart from a brief moment in time where the property priced at 25,000 to 35,000 points per night, that property had been mostly pricing between ~100-150,000 points per night. However, View from the Wing shows that you’ll now often need more than 200,000 points per night to book it.

That’s not the only property affected. One Mile at a Time points to numerous top Ritz-Carlton and St. Regis properties that now cost more than the previous unpublished “cap” of 150,000 points per night.
While the top-end properties are most noticeable, I’m seeing significantly increased maximum award rates at some mid-tier properties as well. For instance, I ran a search for New York City on a weekday in the summer and I noticed a number of properties pricing in the 75-85K range that had previously capped out at significantly lower rates.
For example, I stayed at The Algonquin Hotel Times Square, Autograph Collection in June of 2022 and I paid 45,000 Marriott points per night.

Over the past year and change, I’ve noticed that property rarely dropping below 66K, which would put it within range for a 50K free night certificate. However, I don’t recall seeing it cost more than 76,000 points per night in recent memory. I just searched a stay in June of 2025 and it is listed at 85,000 points per night for my example night. That’s quite an increase in 3 years.
That said, it doesn’t seem like this is an across-the-board devaluation. For instance, I stayed at The Luxury Collection in Manhattan a few months ago, and though I had scored a hot deal on a room when it first became a Marriott, I booked a second room for about the same number of points this past fall that I’m seeing next summer (around 76K points per night).
Because there is no award chart, it’s hard to predict what this all means for the average Marriott Bonvoy redemption. There’s no doubt that the most aspirational properties are now going to be far more expensive to book, and that’s a huge bummer. I prefer to use my Marriott points for those types of redemptions, so I’m incredibly disappointed at the fact that many of them now feel very much out of reach. On the other hand, it’s much harder to say what the impact is on more ordinary redemptions until we re-run our Reasonable Redemption Value calculations for Marriott points. Stay tuned as we work to provide an update soon as to whether there’s been a major change on ordinary redemptions or not.

I checked a few of my bookings for this year and they had all gone down in points for what it is worth. I learned you can update the booking and get points back without having to cancel which is a neat trick.
how do you update without having to cancel?
Having hit Lifetime Platinum a few days ago I can now avoid Marriott for the most part. That’s comforting since Marriott increasingly loathes engaged loyalty members and Bonvoy provides less value all the time.
lol, why is Lifetime Status a reason to avoid them? Goodbye cruel hotel chain!
It’s more that I now have more choice since I don’t need to accumulate 20 nights of actual stays with Marriott. I’m not going to make some silly assertion that I’ll never stay with them again but now I have a lifetime reasonable minimum status and that affords me more freedom.
Congrats on the useless status? Lol
Not quite useless, particularly in secondary locations in Asia but it was a little galling to have to spend 20 nights a year with a company that has such an adversarial approach to the people staying at their hotels.
Ha! Same story from this newly minted lifetime platinum last week. My wife asked how I felt… Relieved it was over, looking forward to being a free agent, and occasional international stays.
It was especially frustrating a couple years ago when they didn’t update my lifetime years counter correctly. Each successive round the rep made up a new excuse, I presented contradictory facts, and they made a new excuse. Ended with rep not responding to facts but instead saying “This is now closed and there will be no further communication.” Escalation had just been redirected to same rep.
A year later, issue mysteriously resolved.
Wanted to quit… Was too close. So glad it’s over. Next stays are Kimpton and Hyatt.
I did a search of my usual hotels in Los Angeles, all increased from the previous 30-35K range to 60-70K range per night. Cash rate remained the same, around $200 per night.
Bummer to see more devaluation. And terrible that Marriott’s dynamic pricing makes it so difficult to detect and measure devaluations (outside of price caps). I track a few properties enough to detect differences. Here’s my anecdotal observations – Westin Hapuna and St Regis Bora Bora unchanged, Waikoloa Marriott and Mauna Beach Hotel high but within historical range, and Ritz Turtle higher. As noted, Marriott’s crazy varying points pricing makes it difficult to evaluate changes, as an example I’ve seen the Waikoloa Marriott vary from 35K to 70K+ for the exact same night with cash rates completely unchanged. I’ve learned to book when I see a semi-acceptable price, then monitor and rebook when the rates almost invariably go down.
Earlier, I posted about my Paris experience. To illustrate why you have to check big award stays every few weeks or every week, I saved another 2,000 points on the day of arrival when the rate dropped.
Yep. I typically use my 35K certificates at the Waikoloa Marriott. I’ll book at 50k and by time of the stay I typically get it down to close to 35k.
With Marriott revenue and net income at all-time highs, management will continue on the path it’s been on for several years. And, the fact is that disgruntled loyalty members don’t move the revenue needle. Acceptance is the final step in grieving.
Gave up on Marriott during the covid because of their non caring customer service and I am quite happy about my decision. This wouldn’t affect me at all. My rule of thumb these days, never deal with bad companies..
I wish it were that simple for me. I’ve had customer service experiences ranging from fantastic to abysmal with every major US hotel chain. I have yet to get so fed up with any of them that I’ll ditch them entirely out of spite.
I was in Paris last month, December 2024. I booked about two months out. Starting a month out, the number of points needed for a 5-night stay dropped by 3,000 to 7,000 points per night almost every week. I had to keep rebooking and getting refunds. It was absurd. Lesson learned. Always, always monitor prices after you make a reservation because with dynamic pricing of award redemptions it can go both ways. Yes, it can get expensive, but it can also get cheaper.
Right now, looking at Paris for 5 nights using random dates in December 2025, all of the desirable full-service properties are 331,000 to 476,500 points. That’s insane. Two of the less-desirable Renaissance properties are 260,000 to 271,000 points.
I’m fortunate in that I have 6 million-plus Marriott points, but how is someone just starting this supposed to accumulate enough points for a 476,500-point stay? Worse, you never actually know how many points to save for that dream trip because there’s no award chart.
At 331,000 or 476,500 points, I’m inclined to start paying cash.
Anecdotal evidence but I was searching Miami yesterday and searched same date and location today. No noticable change that I can tell.